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Epidemiological Pattern of Traumatic Brain Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Understanding traumatic brain injury in elderly populations: a developing country perspective.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2026Article
- COVID-19 and sexual assault: trends in US emergency department visits-a cross-sectional analysis.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- The influence of government-issued lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on traumatic brain injuries in Tyrol, Austria.Brain & spine · 2025Article
- The Impact of the Pandemic of COVID-19 on the Head Injury Fast-Track System and Surgical Outcome.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2024Article
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- Traumatic Brain Injury in the Long-COVID Era.Neurotrauma reports · 2024Review
- Effects of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in chest trauma patients in China: a multicenter retrospective study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Observational
- The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown on Operative Traumatic Brain Injury in Northern Virginia.Cureus · 2023Article
- Changing Epidemiology and Functional Outcomes of Inpatient Rehabilitation in Asian Traumatic Brain Injury Cases before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Outcome of early rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injury during COVID-19 pandemic in The Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Traumatic Brain Injury during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemics in Slovenia: A Single Center Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has decreased since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is still evolving, the number of TBI cases has still greatly increased in multiple countries. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we evaluated the epidemiological characteristics of patients with TBI before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsWe conducted a systematic literature search of original studies, short reports, and research letters from databases on studies that contained data about the severity, mortality, presence of neurological deficits, radiological diagnosis, cause of injury, and type of management of TBI during a specified period within the pandemic compared with before the pandemic.
resultsA total of 18,490 subjects from 13 studies were included in the present study. The results of the meta-analysis showed a higher TBI mortality rate during the COVID-19 pandemic in the low-to-middle income countries (odds ratio, 1.65; 95% confidence interval, 1.12-2.41; P < 0.05; I
conclusionsOur results have indicated that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the TBI mortality rate had increased in low- to middle-income countries. The rate of assault as the cause of TBI had also increased during the pandemic.
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